Re: new iMac arrived today...
- From: notinuse2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Peter Hayes)
- Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2007 18:19:18 +0000
Edwin <thorne25@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Mar 30, 12:08 pm, Alan Baker <alangba...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In article <1175273690.231783.201...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"Edwin" <thorn...@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Mar 26, 8:08 pm, Alan Baker <alangba...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
In article <1174947314.639110.171...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
"Edwin" <thorn...@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Mar 24, 4:50 pm, Lefty Bigfoot <n...@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Strange the free shipping includes FedEx saturday delivery, but
I won't complain.
Power it up, pick a language, pick a login name/password, it
detects the wireless network, I type in the WPA security key,
and I'm up and running. Grab the updates, including a firmware
update for EFI (probably for Vista BS), then some more updates
(grand total of 3 reboots, which sort of surprised me). Connect
to the share where the wife's XP files were all backed up, and
start copying... meanwhile install quicksilver, and things are
peachy. No authorization, no "genuine advantage", no garbage,
apart from the trial virusware^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H Office software
which I removed immediately.
Import contacts, setup email settings and account name, off to
the races.
Your Mac "out of box" experience included all of the things complained
about in the Mac vs. PC commercial:
Before you started to use your computer, you had to download updates,
and uninstall trialware.
No, he didn't have to uninstall anything.
Yes he did. And he had to download updates too.
Dragging a folder to thetrash
is a lot simpler than running an uninstaller.
Explain how searching for files and dragging them to thetrashis "a
lot simpler" than just clicking a button that says "uninstall."
1. There's no searching. There's opening the "Applications" folder and
*reading*.
Reading the contents of the application folder to find files is called
*searching*.
Then there't the matter of the scattered system files that Lefty and
Steve mention in their replies to this thread.
2. Before you click the button that says "uninstall", on Windows you
have to:
a. launch the control panel
Omigod! The horror... the pain... two whole mouse clicks...
arrghh...
b. select the Install/Uninstall section
Could you mean "Add or Remove Programs?" We're up to three mouse
clicks, and we haven't even started picking the programs off the
list... I can see how this would tax the limited abilities of a Mac
Advocate...
... and then proceed to uninstall as many programs as you like from a
list, without having to search for files and manually delete them like
you have to do for Mac OS X.
The automated method of Windows seems easier than Mac OS X's manual
way of doing it...
Since what the Windows uninstaller uninstalls is determined by the
software manufacturer and not by Microsoft it can fail to remove
spyware, etc, that the software manufacturer would like left behind but
would prefer you not to know about. A splendid security black hole, one
that I believe is plugged at long last with Vista.
"Easier" isn't always "better", just the opposite usually...
--
Immunity is better than innoculation.
Peter
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